Yeah, I did realise that in the original, Han Solo shot first... my original comment was suppose to be a joke about on how fans can explain just about any inconsistancy:)
Somehow though, it has wounded up being modded as insightful... guess I'm just not funny, or some SW fans are more serious than I thought...:(
Due to blowing out the original budget on the enormous expense of the Jango Fett clones, they had to settle for a cheaper bounty hunter for the next batch.
Of the bounty hunters, the cheapest of the cheap was a young Greedo who, as we know, is incapable of even shooting a stationary Han Solo from point blank range.
This also goes along way to explaining why a bunch of two foot tall furballs can defeat an entire battalion of storm troopers.
There's a map of the affected areas here:
http://www.smh.com.au/media/2003/01/19/10429112749 35.html [www.smh.com.au]
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Damn you Timothy McVeigh for tainting a perfectly good poem!!:(((
I apologise for my ignorance as an Australian around the sensitivity of the poem to the people of America.
I would remove it out of respect, but I do not know how to:(
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[i]Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever god may be
for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced or cried out aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloodied, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the Shade.
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
"Invictus" ("Unconquerable") [/i]
by William Ernest Henley
I have waited a few days before posting anything anywhere about the tragedy that happened. To all the victims and their families, their friends, their colleagues - I send my sincerest and deepest condolences.
There is nothing more that I can add to express any more sorrow than has already been said countless times, far more eloquently than I can muster.
However, I will say this - no amount of anger or wrath or racial hatred is going to prevent this from happening again. No amount of killing or bloodshed or violence is going to stop more destruction. You do not fight fire with fire... you fight fire with water. This is a time for cool heads to prevail, not for fiery blood.
I am not advocating peace - action *must* be taken - and rest assured that Australia, along with the rest of the free world, will stand united alongside America to hunt down and bring these evil bastards to justice. I would even pull the trigger myself, if I could.
However, I will *not* pull the trigger on the innocent people who happen to have the same skin colour as the perceived perpertrators.
I will *not* forget that it is racial intolerance that has caused these problems in the first place.
I will *not* explode my wrath on those whom I want to be guilty, but save it for those who ARE guilty.
I will *not* forget the lessons of the past, and therefore be condemned to repeat them.
America has produced some of the greatest leaders the world has known - and one of the greatest, Martin Luther King summed up the lesson perfectly - "I have a dream... a dream that my four children will live in a world where they are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
The American or Australian or British or European citizen, who happens to be of middle eastern descent, is *not* your enemy. The muslim colleague that you worked with, and joked with last week is *not* your enemy. The children who attend the local islamic school in your community is *not* your enemy.
Your enemy are those who have perpetrated this foul and vicious crime, those who aid those perpetrators, and those who advocate violence and the destruction of innocents.
You did not destroy or bomb Timothy McVeigh's neighbours, and friends, or city for the terrible crime he committed. Likewise, do not villify those who happen to be muslim. Those who are guilty *must* be punished to the fullest extent, those who are innocent should not suffer - otherwise, we are just performing the same low acts that have made us suffer today.
The world became a much uglier, colder, darker, and horrible place this week, and my grief knows no bounds for what has happened.
We can either make it uglier, colder, darker and horrible, or we can do what we can as individuals, as groups, as nations, and as a world, to try and make things better.
What decision will you make?
Thank you for listening to my rant, and god bless.
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Yeah, I did realise that in the original, Han Solo shot first... my original comment was suppose to be a joke about on how fans can explain just about any inconsistancy :)
:(
Somehow though, it has wounded up being modded as insightful... guess I'm just not funny, or some SW fans are more serious than I thought...
ooh... oooh! I've got a better theory...
Due to blowing out the original budget on the enormous expense of the Jango Fett clones, they had to settle for a cheaper bounty hunter for the next batch.
Of the bounty hunters, the cheapest of the cheap was a young Greedo who, as we know, is incapable of even shooting a stationary Han Solo from point blank range.
This also goes along way to explaining why a bunch of two foot tall furballs can defeat an entire battalion of storm troopers.
There's a map of the affected areas here: http://www.smh.com.au/media/2003/01/19/10429112749 35.html [www.smh.com.au]
Damn you Timothy McVeigh for tainting a perfectly good poem!! :(((
:(
I apologise for my ignorance as an Australian around the sensitivity of the poem to the people of America.
I would remove it out of respect, but I do not know how to
[i]Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever god may be
for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced or cried out aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloodied, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the Shade.
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
"Invictus" ("Unconquerable") [/i]
by William Ernest Henley
I have waited a few days before posting anything anywhere about the tragedy that happened. To all the victims and their families, their friends, their colleagues - I send my sincerest and deepest condolences.
There is nothing more that I can add to express any more sorrow than has already been said countless times, far more eloquently than I can muster.
However, I will say this - no amount of anger or wrath or racial hatred is going to prevent this from happening again. No amount of killing or bloodshed or violence is going to stop more destruction. You do not fight fire with fire... you fight fire with water. This is a time for cool heads to prevail, not for fiery blood.
I am not advocating peace - action *must* be taken - and rest assured that Australia, along with the rest of the free world, will stand united alongside America to hunt down and bring these evil bastards to justice. I would even pull the trigger myself, if I could.
However, I will *not* pull the trigger on the innocent people who happen to have the same skin colour as the perceived perpertrators.
I will *not* forget that it is racial intolerance that has caused these problems in the first place.
I will *not* explode my wrath on those whom I want to be guilty, but save it for those who ARE guilty.
I will *not* forget the lessons of the past, and therefore be condemned to repeat them.
America has produced some of the greatest leaders the world has known - and one of the greatest, Martin Luther King summed up the lesson perfectly - "I have a dream... a dream that my four children will live in a world where they are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
The American or Australian or British or European citizen, who happens to be of middle eastern descent, is *not* your enemy. The muslim colleague that you worked with, and joked with last week is *not* your enemy. The children who attend the local islamic school in your community is *not* your enemy.
Your enemy are those who have perpetrated this foul and vicious crime, those who aid those perpetrators, and those who advocate violence and the destruction of innocents.
You did not destroy or bomb Timothy McVeigh's neighbours, and friends, or city for the terrible crime he committed. Likewise, do not villify those who happen to be muslim. Those who are guilty *must* be punished to the fullest extent, those who are innocent should not suffer - otherwise, we are just performing the same low acts that have made us suffer today.
The world became a much uglier, colder, darker, and horrible place this week, and my grief knows no bounds for what has happened.
We can either make it uglier, colder, darker and horrible, or we can do what we can as individuals, as groups, as nations, and as a world, to try and make things better.
What decision will you make?
Thank you for listening to my rant, and god bless.